iOS Developer Resume
Skills & ATS Keywords

Aim for 35 to 50 specific Swift features, SwiftUI and UIKit patterns, Apple frameworks, and release tools grouped into 7 or 8 labeled rows. Under 25 reads thin for any iOS role above Junior; over 55 reads as a WWDC session list pasted in. Every line in the Skills row should resurface inside at least one shipped-feature bullet underneath.

Swift (with the version, 5.10 or 6), SwiftUI, UIKit, MVVM, async/await with actors, Combine, Core Data or SwiftData, URLSession with Codable, XCTest, Xcode 16, SPM, TestFlight, and App Store Connect are the non-negotiables. Swift Testing, StoreKit 2, WidgetKit, App Intents, fastlane, Xcode Cloud, baseline accessibility, and Sign in with Apple read as strong supporting signal. TCA, Clean Architecture, Tuist, snapshot testing, and Swift 6 strict concurrency separate Senior and Staff iOS files.

Lead with SwiftUI when your current production work is SwiftUI-first. In 2026 SwiftUI is the default expectation across roughly 78% of US iOS Developer postings on iOS 17 or 18 targets, and the declarative model is where new feature work goes. Keep UIKit in the file if you still maintain meaningful UIKit screens, name the UIHostingController and UIViewRepresentable interop you actually run, and have at least one bullet that proves it. Listing UIKit at the same depth as SwiftUI without a recent migration bullet reads as a holdover.

Right under the Profile Summary, before Work Experience. Mobile recruiters scan top down, and Workday or Greenhouse score keywords harder when they sit in a clearly labeled block on the first half of page one. Cap it at 7 or 8 categorized rows, one wrap-friendly line each. Skip proficiency stickers.

iOS Developer (this page) is the Apple-ecosystem specialist track: Swift, SwiftUI, Swift Concurrency, Core Data and SwiftData, Apple frameworks like HealthKit, WidgetKit and App Intents, StoreKit 2, TestFlight, and App Store Connect distribution work. Mobile Engineer is broader and spans iOS, Android, and cross-platform side by side, often with KMP, Flutter, or React Native in the mix. Flutter and React Native are separate cross-platform skill sets that lean on Dart or TypeScript and target both stores from one codebase. If your day is SwiftUI, async/await, and a TestFlight build, you are on the right page. If your day swaps between Swift on iOS and Kotlin on Android, the Mobile Engineer page fits better.

Yes, with honesty in the bullet. async/await, actors, and MainActor isolation appear in roughly 72% of 2026 US iOS JDs, and screens have started filtering on them the way they used to filter on Combine. If you have shipped a Swift Concurrency refactor on even one feature module, name the call-site count, the actor model, and any data-race drop you saw. If the codebase is still mostly Combine plus GCD, keep them fluent, name the lifecycle and threading patterns you use, and add a learning-track line for async/await. Vague “Swift Concurrency familiar” reads worse than no claim. Run the file through an ATS Checker to confirm the parse.

At Senior and Staff bands, yes. Cold start, hang rate, crash-free user rate, scroll FPS, App Store subscription retention, and binary size carry the same weight a backend candidate gets for p95 latency. Quote the tool that produced the number: Instruments Time Profiler, MetricKit, Xcode Organizer, Firebase Crashlytics, Sentry. “Reduced cold start 38% via lazy module loading and on-demand resources” beats a paragraph of generic “improved performance” phrasing.